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LYON, France – The arrest and positive identification in Ecuador of Dritan Rexhepi, the subject of several INTERPOL Red Notices for internationally wanted individuals and a target of a global INTERPOL fugitive operation, has been hailed by the world police body following international cooperation via INTERPOL.
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The Albanian national, aged 34, escap...

Belgian police are appealing for assistance to locate more than 50 items stolen during an aggravated theft at a private residence in Namur, Belgium during the night of 31 December 2012.The thieves violently attacked the homeowner, leaving him with serious injuries, before escaping with the works of art including a valuable collection of 18th and 19th cent...

BRUSSELS, Belgium – Sharing and managing police data related to organized crime is the aim of the INTERPOL West African Police Information System (WAPIS) Programme, which held its inaugural workshop on 21-22 November.Developed by INTERPOL, the WAPIS Programme is an EU-funded project initiated during Belgium’s presidency of the Council of the European Unio...

LYON, France – Identifying further areas of cooperation in which INTERPOL’s global tools and international law enforcement network can further support national and regional security was the focus of a visit to INTERPOL’s General Secretariat headquarters today by Catherine De Bolle, Commissioner General of the Belgian Federal Police.In meetings with Secret...

Belgian police have released CCTV images in a bid to identify three men wanted in connection with the violent robbery of a jewellery store in which the shop owner and her husband were left seriously injured.At around 10am on Monday 4 June two men walked into the jewellery shop on Vlasmark in Dendermonde where they sold a gold necklace. One of the men iden...

LYON, France – A Dutch national suspected of murder in Belgium and wanted as part of an INTERPOL operation targeting fugitives worldwide has been arrested by police in Croatia, following a tip-off from a member of the public in Ireland.Morgan Schreurs, who is accused of killing a woman he met in a bar in November 1999, is one of the targets highlighted as...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – An INTERPOL operation targeting 207 internationally-wanted fugitives wanted for serious crimes including murder, kidnapping, organized crime and child sexual abuse believed to be hiding in South America has led to arrests across the continent and new investigative leads established for almost a quarter.Investigative leads develop...

An international week of action targeting the online sale of counterfeit and illicit medicines has resulted in a series of arrests and the seizure of thousands of potentially harmful medical products.In response to an ever-increasing number of websites supplying dangerous and illegal medicines, Operation Pangea II involving 24 countries was co-ordinated b...

LYON, France – INTERPOL has issued an international Yellow Notice missing persons alert following the disappearance of a Belgian boy near the Belgian-French border.The four-year-old boy, Younes Jratlou, disappeared on Sunday night in the Belgian area of Comines-Warneton, close to the French border. The Yellow Notice was issued at the request of INTERPOL’s...

LYON, France – INTERPOL has issued Red Notices - or international wanted persons notices - for two convicted criminals who escaped from a Belgian prison on 14 April.Belgian authorities contacted INTERPOL’s Command and Co-ordination Centre (CCC) at the General Secretariat following the breakout of Sheptim Murati and Kassim Geibi from the jail in Verviers,...